"Nightflight" Tue Feb 11, 9P-12M ET: TCMS...the Epic Continues...1967!

[midnight johnny]

Howdy "Nightflight" Listeners!! First of all, I'd like to thank Universal Vault Manager Andy Skurow for a wonderful and clarifying visit last week. And he'll also join us next week for a very special show featuring live on-air one of Motown's grand ladies...I'll tell you who it is tonight during the show. And speaking of tonight's show....we are continuing with another very important year for Motown artists...a year of musical transition...1967! So do join me tonight for all this and more....on "Nightflight"....on WOMR 92.1 FM Provincetown and WFMR 91.3 FM Orleans and we are streaming live worldwide in digital stereo at www.womr.org [[http://www.womr.org) Thanks!! John PS: A huge thanks to Bobby Gardner [[SDF's OWN rossholloway) for making tonight's show possible by sharing the tracks we'll be airing tonight. Thanks, Bobby....and please be careful with the storm that Georgia is about to get!!!

[carole cucumber]

Perhaps, Claudia Robinson??

[midnight johnny]

Perhaps, Claudia Robinson??Do you mean Claudette Robinson?

[carole cucumber]

[[With red face) Same church, wrong pew. Yes, I meant Claudette.Apologies to Claudette....

[midnight johnny]

[[With red face) Same church, wrong pew. Yes, I meant Claudette.Apologies to Claudette....Don't feel bad....remember on the recorded "Farewell" performance Diana called her "Claude"?

[carole cucumber]

http://soulfuldetroit.com/showthread.php?11100-Digital-Only-Release-March

[sophisticated_soul]

Well I guess my thought that it would be Smokey was way off base! Not even the right sex! LOL!! See you and the gang tonight for MoTown 1967.:cool:

[carole cucumber]

Well I guess my thought that it would be Smokey was way off base! Not even the right sex! LOL!! See you and the gang tonight for MoTown 1967.:cool:


But............
In the case of Smokey & Tata, both are known by first names that are not their name of birth.

[sophisticated_soul]

But............
In the case of Smokey & Tata, both are known by first names that are not their name of birth.

And . . .
Their non-given names follow each other alphabetically.:cool:

[midnight johnny]

Hi-De-Ho!!! In the studio!

[Glenpwood]

Hi John!

Ready for more musical delights from 1967 with you and the gang! See everyone shortly!

[midnight johnny]

Hi John!

Ready for more musical delights from 1967 with you and the gang! See everyone shortly!

Glen.....how lovely to see you!!!

[carole cucumber]

Hi John!Ready for more musical delights from 1967 with you and the gang! See everyone shortly!Although I've been having a faux pas sort of day, I think it's safe to say that we won't be seeing [[or hearing) Shortly Long as he has no other single released in 1967 other than "Chantilly Lace"/"Your Love Is Amazing" which Johnny played last week/

[midnight johnny]

Hi John!Ready for more musical delights from 1967 with you and the gang! See everyone shortly!Although I've been having a faux pas sort of day, I think it's safe to say that we won't be seeing [[or hearing) Shortly Long as he has no other single released in 1967 other than "Chantilly Lace"/"Your Love Is Amazing" which Johnny played last week/

Hey Carole.....WELCOME YOU!!!!

[144man]

Slept right through to the alarm this week. G'morning, John.

[144man]

There's no flooding where I live, though there might have been if my alarm hadn't gone off!

[carole cucumber]

It's Wild!- It's Different!- It's Out Of Sight!- It's the Supremes!

[supremester]

I have never heard YOUR The Happening - love it! This was, for a year and a half, my fave Supremes record - EVER. Love Child supplanted it and then You Cant Hurry Love, Baby Love, Back In My Arms Again and I Hear A Symphony reclaimed the title - to a tie!

[midnight johnny]

There's no flooding where I live, though there might have been if my alarm hadn't gone off!

G'Mornin' Martin....gosh I was worried as I was heaaring about Britain's flooding on NPR/BBC....what a relief....so glad you are with us!

[supremester]

Happy Kyne and The Mirth Makers!

[thomas96]

I'm late but I'm here!

[RossHolloway]

Atlanta is here and safe and listening.

[lovechild]

Hi JP and all. Happy 1967! :)

[midnight johnny]

I have never heard YOUR The Happening - love it! This was, for a year and a half, my fave Supremes record - EVER. Love Child supplanted it and then You Cant Hurry Love, Baby Love, Back In My Arms Again and I Hear A Symphony reclaimed the title - to a tie!

Gregg...welcome....and thank you!!! BIMAA....TOPS with me!!

[sophisticated_soul]

I met Jaye P. Morgan in the early 70's.

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[thomas96]

I think it's Eddie on the sitar, not completely sure.

[midnight johnny]

I met Jaye P. Morgan in the early 70's.

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Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.....thank you for that, Joe!!!!

[carole cucumber]

The libretto says it is a Motown legend that it was a demo for the tops.

[midnight johnny]

I think it's Eddie on the sitar, not completely sure.

Thanks, Thomas!!!

[sophisticated_soul]

The front cover of the album.

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[midnight johnny]

The libretto says it is a Motown legend that it was a demo for the tops.

Carole......MERCI!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[carole cucumber]

Eddie Willis occasionally played the sitar on Motown songs Perhaps it is he here.

[midnight johnny]

Hi JP and all. Happy 1967! :)

Happy 1967 cuz YOU'RE Here!!!

[144man]

"There's A Ghost.." and "Festival Time" both UK hits in the 1970s.

[midnight johnny]

Eddie Willis occasionally played the sitar on Motown songs Perhaps it is he here.
Thank you, Carole!!

[supremester]

Just HOW naughty, "Midnight' Johnny"????? Gale Storm, I understand - but I draw the line at Nugie! My first" Ricky Nelson.....I was 5 and stared at the TV and ached when he came on. One day, when I was 19, he walked into a restaurant where I was hanging with friends and well, if you saw Lucy Ricardo at The Brown Derby .........it was like that.

[carole cucumber]

In the libretto, Dennis Coffey snitches on which Funk Brothers he saw a lot and which he saw only a few times at Ric-Tic.

[MotownLover]

Better late than never. Howdy ya'll!

Howard in Long Beach, CA :cool:

[thomas96]

The libretto says it is a Motown legend that it was a demo for the tops.

Where is this libretto you speak of?

[carole cucumber]

"I've Been Blessed" is not the same song as "Oh I've Been Blessed"

[MotownLover]

Been listening all along, actually. Just didn't make it to the Motown Forum til now...

[carole cucumber]

Libretto=liner notes in TCMS

[midnight johnny]

Just HOW naughty, "Midnight' Johnny"????? Gale Storm, I understand - but I draw the line at Nugie! My first" Ricky Nelson.....I was 5 and stared at the TV and ached when he came on. One day, when I was 19, he walked into a restaurant where I was hanging with friends and well, if you saw Lucy Ricardo at The Brown Derby .........it was like that.

Gregg.....I can see you knocking that cake into Ricky's face!!!!

[thomas96]

Bobby Taylor's "Oh I've Been Bless'd" is a beauty!!

[thomas96]

Libretto=liner notes in TCMS

Ohhhhh, thank you.

[MotownLover]

John, it's called "atrophy" when one fails to exercise their brain. At my age, I often say "My brain is mush" when I can't remember something that I ought to be able to recall.

Howard in Long Beach, CA ;)

[midnight johnny]

John, it's called "atrophy" when one fails to exercise their brain. At my age, I often say "My brain is mush" when I can't remember something that I ought to be able to recall.

Howard in Long Beach, CA ;)

Howard....oyyyyyyyyy...ain't it the Truth?

[supremester]

I DID embarrass myself and waitresses gave up trying to move me from the middle of the aisle as I stared at him eating his Denny's Deluxe and just walked around me. Finally, I got the nerve to go over to him and his blue eyes and hairy chest and he was SO nice [[not so his manager.)

OK Gale Storm: My Little Margie or Oh, Suzannah! ???

[supremester]

RossHolloway & Carol: Thank you for your input to these shows - you are appreciated!

[144man]

It's a pity you couldn't have sneaked in Laura Lee's "To Win Your Heart" after you played "Festival Time".

[midnight johnny]

I DID embarrass myself and waitresses gave up trying to move me from the middle of the aisle as I stared at him eating his Denny's Deluxe and just walked around me. Finally, I got the nerve to go over to him and his blue eyes and hairy chest and he was SO nice [[not so his manager.)

With Gale?? Both shows. You should hear my extended version of the "My Little Margie" Theme song....such a great piece..that song! All the pizzicato ..................

OK Gale Storm: My Little Margie or Oh, Suzannah! ???

With Gale?? Both shows. You should hear my extended version of the "My Little Margie" Theme song....such a great piece..that song! All the pizzicato ..................

[carole cucumber]

Laura's version is missing the reed & brass overdubs of the San Remo Golden Strings recording.

[midnight johnny]

It's a pity you couldn't have sneaked in Laura Lee's "To Win Your Heart" after you played "Festival Time".


I don't know that one....same song??

[144man]

I don't know that one....same song??

On RicTic. Same backing track. See Carole's post #52.

[carole cucumber]

Laura version , Ric-Tic RT 111 [[1966) & as a British Tamla-Motown re-issue [[1971)

[sophisticated_soul]

At 82, Jaye P. Morgan is still with us. This is the flyer from the show I saw, when a bunch of us guys went up to Palm Springs for the Memorial Day weekend. I wish it said the year because I don't recall now. I was in my early/mid 20's. It had to be some time between 1973 and 1977, so I'll say 1975 [[my mind has gotten rather mushy too:)). I believe she was on the Gong Show at the time. When she exited the stage after the show I asked her to autograph the album I had brought with me. I guess because the album was from 1958, when she looked at it she said, with smile "Are you being mean?". I almost screamed out "No Miss Morgan, No!" And she laughed out loud and invited me to her dressing room. We sat for just a few minutes as she signed the album. She was very nice.

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[midnight johnny]

On RicTic. Same backing track. See Carole's post #52.

Gotcha.....thanks, you two!!

[midnight johnny]

at 82, jaye p. Morgan is still with us. This is the flyer from the show i saw, when a bunch of us guys went up to palm springs for the memorial day weekend. I wish it said the year because i don't recall now. I was in my early/mid 20's. It had to be some time between 1973 and 1977, so i'll say 1975 [[my mind has gotten rather mushy too:)). I believe she was on the gong show at the time. When she exited the stage after the show i asked her to autograph the album i had brought with me. I guess because the album was from 1958, when she looked at it she said, with smile "are you being mean?". I almost screamed out "no miss morgan, no!" and she laughed out loud and invited me to her dressing room. We sat for just a few minutes as she signed the album. She was very nice.

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get out!!!!!! Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!

[144man]

Never noticed the similarity between "7 Rooms.." and the Dells' "There Is" before.

[carole cucumber]

Hey, some of us were gypped. My copy of TCMS 1967 doesn't feature the Mandante as much as Bobby Gardner's does!!!

[sophisticated_soul]

Never noticed the similarity between "7 Rooms.." and the Dells' "There Is" before.

I never thought about it, but yeah. Oddly enough both songs are particular favorites of mine.

[sophisticated_soul]

Wow, I've never heard any of Paul Peterson's Motown material. Actually, this isn't bad. I probably would have bought if I had known about it at the time.

[midnight johnny]

Never noticed the similarity between "7 Rooms.." and the Dells' "There Is" before.


You're right...never noticed!!

[midnight johnny]

Hey, some of us were gypped. My copy of TCMS 1967 doesn't feature the Mandante as much as Bobby Gardner's does!!!


Be glad......

[carole cucumber]

Jimmy Webb offered "By the Time I Get To Phoenix" to Paul Petersen, but Motown turned it down

[carole cucumber]

Paul first, then Marvin

[sophisticated_soul]

Jimmy Webb offered "By the Time I Get To Phoenix" to Paul Petersen, but Motown turned it down

Yikes! That might have totally changed Paul Peterson's fortunes. I hadn't heard that before. He has a good voice for that type of song.

[carole cucumber]

J. Fred Coots is one of the writers of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"

[midnight johnny]

Jimmy Webb offered "By the Time I Get To Phoenix" to Paul Petersen, but Motown turned it down

Phew.........................

[midnight johnny]

Paul first, then Marvin

Wow......never would have thought. But I guess Paul was in LA as was Frank.....

[carole cucumber]

A song written with with Sam Lewis help as lyricist and recorded by some Motown artists:
"Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody".

[carole cucumber]

Tata Vega's albums weren't shelved. All 4 were released on Tamla!

[midnight johnny]

Tata Vega's albums weren't shelved. All 4 were released on Tamla!


I swear she said in the film that the last 2 were shelved at the time....

[carole cucumber]

Jimmy Webb is quoted as saying that when he left Motown L.A. to work at Soul City for Marc Gordon, he asked to take "By the Time i Get To phoenix " and a few other songs he had written at Motown with him. he received permission. Among the treasures -"Up Up and Away", "Worst That Could Happen"

[carole cucumber]

Tata's albums released on Tamla 8/76; 2/77; 1/79; 9/80

[midnight johnny]

Tata's albums released on Tamla 8/76; 2/77; 1/79; 9/80

Hmmmmmmm...thanks!

[carole cucumber]

Tata may well have said that; many of us don't remember everything from the past correctly. We've seen that with many Motown and non-Motown artists.

[RossHolloway]

Everybody Needs Love is my favorite song by GK&TPs.

[carole cucumber]

Berry Gordy chose "Your Unchanging Love " for release over "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" at a 1967 quality control meeting.

[supremester]

That's cuz it's so derivative of so many hits. Can you imagine if Marvin's came out first?????

Eddie.xoxoxoxo!!!!!!!!!

[midnight johnny]

Let me take a moment to thank you all for a great show!!! Do come back for Andy and Ta Ta Vega next week!!!! Til then....Happy Trails to you until.......

[RossHolloway]

I still think Reflections is about Diana and Florence.

[supremester]

GREAT FINISH! Mono, baby! Thanks for a great show, MJ........xo to OUR Joseph,,,,

[carole cucumber]

I still think Reflections is about Diana and Florence.

Springboarding from that thought.. it is chilling to hear Flo so prominent in the refrain of "Going Down.." SAVE ME I'm going down for the THIRD Time [[three strikes & you're out?)
and mixed so so so very low [[almost inaudible) for "Reflections"

[sophisticated_soul]

What a bang up finish! Thanks John:) Thanks everybody:) See y'all next time. . .for Tata and Andy!!:cool:

[sophisticated_soul]

GREAT FINISH! Mono, baby! Thanks for a great show, MJ........xo to OUR Joseph,,,,

Thank You Gregg:)

[carole cucumber]

Springboarding from that thought.. it is chilling to hear Flo so prominent in the refrain of "Going Down.." SAVE ME I'm going down for the THIRD Time [[three strikes & you're out?)
and mixed so so so very low [[almost inaudible) for "Reflections"

And the revelation of Flo objecting to Berry's desire to add the Andantes to the background of "The Happening" HMMH.......